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Friday shorts: StarCraft II gets beta tested for China, Dragon Age II patch, Monday Night Combat

Get shorty with it. Or something. Find a bunch of headlines after the break.

  • StarCraft II's entered into beta testing in China. Press release is here.
  • A Toronto hospital has set up a Kinect camera for use whilst in surgery. More at Gama.
  • Kinect's also been helping out with the blind. SlashGear has the story on how a German university is doing so.
  • BioWare's released a V1.01 patch for Dragon Age II on PC following previous beta testing. BigDownload has the update.
  • Markus "Notch" Persson has shown off the titles he worked on before MineCraft. It all ranges from an RTS to an RPG called Rubylands and more.
  • Monday Night Combat is free-to-play this weekend on Steam. The game's 33 percent off until Monday if you want to buy it thereafter.
  • SingStar's getting a large content update in the US. Snow Patrol's dominating it. GayGamer has the lot.
  • "MIT GAMBIT Lab Releases Improviso Game With Goal Of Training AI," says Gama. It's "a two-player improvisational performance game designed to capture data that will help train new, more human-like artifical intelligence systems," apparently.

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Johnny has experience at a wide range of games media outlets, having written for Eurogamer, Play Magazine, PC Gamer, GameDaily, and more. He worked at VG247 pumping out news at an astonishing rate for several years. More recently, he founded the games website PlayDiaries.

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